fin de siècle

/ˌfæn də siˈɛklə/adj
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1

Pertaining to the close of the 19th century, usually suggesting a literary and artistic climate of modernism, world-weariness, and self-indulgence.

2

Pertaining to the close of the 20th (or any other) century.

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